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Patented Nov. 2|. I899.

w. H. BAKER & F. E. KIP.

LOOM.

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No. 637,753. Patented Nov. 2|, I899. W. H. BAKER & F. E. KIP.

LOOM.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BAKER, OF GEN TRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND, AND FREDERIO E.

. KIP, OF MQNTOLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

LOOIVIQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,753, dated November 21, 1899. Application filed July 19, 1899. Serial No. 724,385. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. BAKER, residing at Central Falls, Providence county, Rhode Island, and FREDERLC E. KIP, resid- 5 ing at Montclair, Essex county, New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Looms, of which the following is a specification.

to This invention relates to the class of looms provided with mechanism for supplying to the loom, automatically, filled weft-carriers, and which are provided with monitors or detectors which act when the weft in. the runr5 ning-shuttle is nearly or wholly exhausted to set in motion the weft-supplying mechanism.

In the construction which forms the object of this invention there is astationary magazine of some kind for the filled shuttles, a

2n shiftable and displaceable shuttle-boxon the lay or batten adapted to be moved from the picking-point to make room for a placer containing a full shuttle, means whereby the said placer or placing-pocket is made to re- 2 5 ceive a. full shuttle from the magazine, mechanism for effecting the shifting of the shuttlebox and "placer, and magneto-electric means for detecting the exhaustion of the shuttle-in play and for setting in motion said shifting .go-tmechanism.

One of the features of the invention is the manner of shifting the shuttle-holders when a full shuttle is to be supplied and the exhausted shuttle discharged, and another is the op- 3 5 eration of the shifting mechanism from a cam in the 100m, which rotates once for each two picks of the loom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is l a side elevation of a part of the loom, illusotrating the application of our invent-ion thereto. This viewshows' the lay or batten in its advanced position, having beaten up, and the shuttle-box and placer in their normal positions. Fig; 2 is a similar-view to Fig.

5 1, butshowin g the lay receding and the placer in operation to supply a full shuttle. 3 is a front sectional elevation, the plane of the section being indicated by line w? in Fig. 1 and Fjg'i is'a frout"elevation of the-mags, 5o zine and placer, which are omitted frOL'HQEig.

3. Fig. 5 is a sectional View showing theplaber in plan, but empty. Fig. 6 is a side elevation ofthe fixed side of the shuttle-box, showing the electric terminals and circuits. 7 Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of the shuttle and bobbin with their electrical devices. Fig. 8 illustrates another construction of the magaziue. Fig. 9 includes aside elevation and a plan view'of the magnet, armature-lever, and adjacent parts on a larger scale than the :principal views.

thus puts the armature-lever of this magnet.-

into the path of an operating lever or arm to which motion is imparted by a cam on the loom, so that this cam, through said lever and suitable intermediate mechanism, shifts the said-displaceable shuttle-box, discharges the exhausted shuttle therefrom, puts the placer in position, and holdsitin line with the picker until the full shuttle therein is picked to the opposite side of the loom.

The arm then passes and the parts resume their usual or normal position until the shuttle in play is practically exhausted of weft, when the sup plying operation is repeated.

1 re resents generally the frame of the loom, 2 the reast-beam thereof, and 3the lay or lay-head, carried bythe lay-swords 3 which latter are fixed below to the swing-rail 4. The lay is vibrated in the usual manner from a crank 5 and connecting-rod 5*. parts are common, in some form, on looms now in use, as is also the picker-stick'G. p

The features which embody the present invent-ion will now be described.

All of these 7 On the loom frame is mounted ashuttleroe .posed therein. At the delivery-ontletot the spring 9 of any suitable kind holds the placera; a I I 037,753

lasort or trough mounted on an upright arm 8", whichturns at its'lower end on the swingrail 4 or on some adjacent pivotal axis. A

in its normal receiving position. 011 the lay 3 is mounted the shuttle-box 10. This box consists of a stationary part and a movable part. :The side 10 farthest from the magazine is fixed on the loom. The bottom. 10 and the side next the magazine, including the swell 10, forma movable part, which is'se,-=

cured to a pair of stems 11, that are guided in suitable keepers 12 on, the lay-head. -(Jonnected to the stems 11' is an upright guide rod and lowered to the proper extent. -Z. The operating mechanism of the placer and shuttle-box will now be d'escri'bed. I On the frame of the loom 'a lever 14 is fulcrqm'ed at m, and one arm of this lever is or slide 13, by which the box 10 may beraised coupled by a rod 15 to one arm .of an-elbow-f lever 16, 'fulcrumed atits elbow on 'the up-' .right slide 13, [The other arm of 'the'elbowlever is provided with a hook 16*, which is adapted under certain conditions, to be'here inafter explained, to engage a stud 8" on the arm carrying the placer 8. On the other arm of the lever 14 is fixed an electromagnet M, the armature a of which is fixed on one arm of an'el'bow-lever 17, which is provided on its other arm with a book 17. An ordinary armature-spring 17" holds the armature retracted normally, and a spring 14 holds the lever 14 in the normal position seen in Fig; 1.

The crank-wheel 5 gears with a wheel 18 of twice its own diameter, and on the shaft 18' of said wheeliis a cam 19, which will of course rotate oncewhile the lay is making two vibratory movements. .This cam 19 bears on an arm or lever 20, which may be held -up to the cam by a spring 21.

or lever isvibrated constantly whilethe loom;

This operating arm is inoperation, and it bears at its free end a hook 20, which plays close to the hook on" the armature-lever 17, and when the magnet M- is excited and attracts its armature the lever- 17 is rocked and itsv hooked end 17- put into the path of the hook 20. Let us suppose that while the lay is atthe picking-point an exhausted shuttle enters the shuttle-box 1O from thefopposite side of the'looin and through electrical means; tobe hereinafterdescribed,

completes a circuit through the magnet M.

The lay will afterward beat up the shot and start to recede; but before it again reaches the picking pointthe cam 19 will depress the lever 20, which will engage thelever 14 and ,rock' it, thus acting through the rod '15 and elbow-lever 16 to elevate the shuttle-box .10 and, shift the placer 8 to the position seenin Fig. 2. The exhausted shuttle will be thrown from the open rear side of the shuttle-box and may be caught in a tray or receptacle 22 on the loomframe. The full-shuttle in the placer 8"wi1l be picked to the opposite side of the loom. The cain 19 now passes, the placer is returned by its springtoits' normal receiving position, and the shuttle-box descends to its normal position on the lay. As soon as the shuttle-box is elevated the circuit is broken, and the continuedengagement of the 1ever20 with the armature-lever 17 will be purely mechanical.

' .It should be explained that the picker and picker-stick are omitted from Figs, 1 and 2 to avoid obscuring the other parts. The pickerstick plays in a slot in the lay-head and in the bottom of the shuttle-box and also-of the placer when the latter is-on the lay, as seen in Fig. 2. In Fig. 5'the slots for the picker in the respective bottoms of the placer and shuttle-box are shown. Itwill be noted in this view that the fixed side 10' of the shuttie-box has in it recesses 10 to receive the parts 8, forming the corresponding side of p the placer. This side of the placer is short, and a part of the bottom of the placer at '8 '9o is omitted, so that should'the placer be perniitted toreturn to its "normal receiving position before the picker-stick on its return after the pick isfully' "home the stick will clear 'the'placer. -"The' opposite side of the 5 placer-that one at the left in Figs. 1,2, and 5-.has' a movable side 8, which when the placer recedes to its position at the receivingpoint under the magazine is moved outward automatically, so as to widen-the'jpl-acer'and. we

allow ample room for theshnttle to enter freely from the magazine. This'outward movement of the side 8 may be effected by any convenient means. -That herein show-n comprises" a-- lever 23, fulcrumed on the arm 8, the side 8being mounted on the upper arm of said lever. A spring 23" acts to hold said side pressed .in, and a'-s tud.23 on the loom-frame engages the lever below its fulcrnm -aud .presses the' 'side out, as-seen in no Fig. 1:

To prevent the shuttles from falling out of the magazine whenthe placer advances, a device is employed in connection with'the simple uprightlformr of magazine seen inFigs. l 1 g 5 'and 2." Thisv device consists of springs 24 on the. side of the magazine, carrying two fingers 25, which tend to take n nder the coned ends of the bottom shuttl'e and support it; but downwardly-projecting branches -25on the i, fingers 25 are.-engaged by the placer when it recedes, and thus the supporting-fingersare pressed back "by the placer and the shuttle allowed to descend 'into the latter.

Fig. 8 illustrates another form of magazine, 12 5 whichisin mostrespects like that shownin our pendingappli'cation, Serial No. 721,802, filed June 26,1899. It is also illustrated and claimed Within the casing 7 isa rotatively-n ounted drum 7, having at its periphery cells to contain the shuttles. At its top the casing is open, so that the shuttle-cells in the drum may be conveniently filled. The shuttle in the lowermost cell of the drum passes down through the pocket, guide, or chute 7 into the placer. When the placer recedes from the picking position, Fig.2, to the receiving position, Fig. l, a latch 26, carried thereby,

engages one of a series of studs 27 on the end of the drum 7, thus turning it on its axis to an extent sulficient to bring the next shuttle-cell over the placer. When the placer advances, the latch 26 wipes under the stud 27, which it finds in its path. A spring-detent 28 by engaging the studs 27 steadies the drum in its set position.

The electrical devices employed in the shuttie-boa, shuttle, and weft-carrier may be like any one of those shown in our several pending applications illustrating electrically-controlled weft-supplying mechanism-for example, Serial No. 721,802, filed June 26, 1899, or Serial No. 723,128, filed July 8, 1899-or it may be like thosein our Letters Patent Nos. 633,944 and 633,945, dated September 26, 1899. As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, they consist of the instrumentalities which will now be described. On the side 10 of the shuttlebox are mounted two spring-terminals t and These form terminals of an electric circuit comprising the conductors c c, the magnet M, and a suitable generator G. On the side of the shuttle are two contact-plates p and p, which when the shuttle enters the shuttle-box are put into electrical contact with the respective.spring-terminals t and t. Thesh uttle has hinged in it a bobbin-spindle 24, on which is loosely mounted a metal ring 25, which is electrically connected by a conductor 26 (through a spring 27'behind the ring) with the plate 10. The bobbin 28, which slips on the spindle 24 and carriesthe weft, carries a spring-terminal 29, which has electrical contact with the ring when the bobbin is in place, and this spring-terminal tends by its resiliency to spring outward until .its free end is in contact with the inner face of a metal ring or piece 30 on the bobbin. This latter ring is connected electrically bya condoctor 31 with a groovedmetal ring or piece 32 on the bobbin, and when the bobbin is pressed down in the shuttle the said groove engages a metal rod 33 in the shuttle, which is in turn connected by a conductor 34 with the plate 1). The terminal 29 occupies a slot in the bobbin, and when over-wrapped by the weft-thread its free end is held out of contact with the ring or piece30; but when the weft is nearly exhausted the circuit will be closed at this break.

The object in providing the elbow-lever 16 with a hook on its arm to engage the stud 8 on the placer-arm 8 is to permit the lay to vibrate normally without carrying the placer with it and to enable the hook on'the lever to engage the stud of the placer at the-moment of shifting. It would be feasible, however, to couple the. lever 16 permanently to the arm of the placer. \Vhere ahook is employed the cam 19 will be so set as to provide sufiicient movement of the hook to engage the stud before the shuttle box and placer are moved. As the electromagnet M will be excited when the exhausted shuttle enters the box 10 from the opposite side. at the picking-point and the engagement of the hook 16 with the stud 8 must take place at the end of the beating-up movement of the lay, it is desirable to-hinge the end of the arm of the lever 16, hearing the hook 16, and provide it with a spring, as seen in Fig. 1, thus giving it the form of a spring-latch, so that at the moment the circuit is completed at the picking-point tthe cam-lever 20' may engage the armature-lever 17 and begin to rock the lever 16. The latch-hook 16 will then as it approaches wipe over the stud 8 and snap into engagement with the same. As the armature-lever 17 will tend to swing i or turn about its fulcrum on the lever 14 when the hook on its end is engaged by the hook on the end of the lever 20, it is desirable to employ the construction seen best in Fig. 9, which shows the armature-lever on a larger scale than in the principal views. The book 17 a is connected to the lever proper by a rulejoint backed by a spring 17". This spring normally holds the hook rigid with the lever proper; but when acted upon by the lever 20 the spring 17 will yield a little, as will be understood. V

It may be explained, respecting the placer 8, which is made automatically expansible, that one of the objects sought is to have the same contract when the lay recedes to the picking-point, so as to hold the shuttle snugly; and as we are the first, as we believe, to provide a placer that thus expands and contracts we do notlimit ourselves to any specific means and structure for efiecting this result. It will be noted also that the placer is'fullopen at its top, so as to receive the shuttle, which drops in from above.

. Having thus described our invention, we claim-.

1. In a loom, the combination with a stat- ICC tionary shuttle-magazine, a displaceable shuttle-box, a shiftable shuttle-placer which is movable from the delivery-outlet of the magazine to the picking-point on the lay and adapted to receive and carry a shuttle from the magazine to sai'd picking-point, mechanism for displacing the shuttle-box and replacing it with the said placer containing a full shuttle, mechanism for replacing said placer and box after the full shuttle shall have been picked, and electromagnetic means for controlling the shifting of said placer and shuttle-box.

2. In a loom, the combination with ashut-v tle-box and capable of an up-and-down movement, a shuttle-magazine on the loom-i'rame and having a delivery-outlet at its lower part, a shiftable placer normally situated at the outlet ofthe magazine and open to receive a shuttle therefrom, mechanism for elevating the shuttle-box and for shifting the placer to the position vacated by the shuttle -box,

and shuttle:box.

3. In a loom, the combination with a stationary shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable shuttle-box, a shiftable shuttle-placer which is movable from the delivery-outlet of the magazine to the picking-point and adapted v to receive and carry a shuttle from the magazine to said picking-point, a rotating cam in the loom, mechanism between said cam and the placer and shuttle-box, and actuated by said cam, for displacing the shuttle-box and shifting the placer to the position at the pickmg-pomt vacated by the former, means for returning the plalcer and sh'uttle-box to their normal positions when the operating-cam.

. shall have passed, and electromagnetic means shuttle-box, ashiftable shuttle-placer which i controlling the connection between said cam and the mechanism which shifts the shuttle box and placer.

- 4. In a loom, thecombination with a stationary shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable is movable from the delivery-outlet of the magazine to the picking-point and. adapted to receive and carry a shuttle from the magazine'to said picking-point, a rotating cam in the loom, positive mechanism between said cam and the placer and shuttle-box, whereby the formeractuates the latter for displacing the shuttle-box and shifting the placer to the position at the picking-point vacated by the .former, means for returning the placer and shuttle-box to their normal positions when the ope'ratingcam shall have passed, and electromagnetic means controlling the connection between said cam and the mechanism which shifts the shuttle box and placer.

'5. In a loom, the combination with a weftsupply mechanism, comprising a displaceable shuttle-box, a stationary magazine having a delivery-outlet at its lower part, and a shiftableplacer adapted to be shifted from its normal receiving position at the magazine to the position vacated by the shuttle-box, of the rotating cam 19, -in the loom, its lever 20, the lever 14, fulcrumed on the loom-frame,- the electromagnet carried on-one arm of the lever- 14,'its armature, the armaturedevor 17, and its spring, mechanism between the lever 14 and the placer and shuttle-box for shifting these latter when the leverl4 isrocked', an electric circuit including a generator and said magnet, the,-shuttle, and means carried by the shuttle for'closing the circuitthrough said magnet, whereby when the magnet is excited and attracts its armature, thearmature-levei is'put into the path of the lever 20, substantially as set forth.

6'. In a loom, the combination with a sta; tionary shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable shuttle-box, a shit-table shuttle-placer which is movable from the delivery-outletof the magazine to the picking-point and adapted to receive and carry a shuttle from the magazine'to said pickin point, the slide 13 carry- I ing the shuttle-box, the elbow-lever 16, fulcrnmed .on said slide and having one arm adapted to engage-the arm carrying the placer, the lever 14, fulcrumed on the loomframe', the rod 15, coupling the other arm of the elbow-lever to ,the lever 14, the magnet mounted on the lever 14, its armature and armature-lever, the cam-lever 20, adapted to engage said armature-lever when the magnet is excited, the rotating cam 19, which acts upon the, arm 20, an electric circuit including the said electromagnet and having terminals at the shuttle-box, and the shuttle, having in it a circuit with terminals to contact with those on the shuttle-box, said circuit having in it a self-closing break which is held open by the weft in the shuttle, substantially as set forth.

7. In an electrically-controlled weft-supplying mechanism for looms, thecombination with an operating-cam, and a hooked lever operated directly by said cam, of the magnett carrying lever 14, the magnet and its armature, the pivotally-mounted armature-lever on the lever 14, the hook 17, pivotally at-- tached to the latter and adapted to be en'- gaged by the hooked cam-lever, and a spring 17", to return the hook, substantially as set forth. 1

4 8. In a weft supplying mechanism for looms, thecombination with a magazine havinga delivery-outlet in its bottom, and a placer situated normally directly under said outlet and in position to receive ashuttle or weftcarrier from said magazine, said placer'havinga movable side, of, means for automatically moving said side outwardly when the placer takes its receiving position under the magazine, whereby the placer is; made widcr' for the reception of as set forth. t 9.- The vibrating placer '8, having a movable side 8, the supporting-arm of the placer, the lever 23, carrying the side 8, and fulcrumed on the said drum, the spring 23", and

the shuttle, substantially the stud on the loom-frame by which said lever is actuated to move said side, all combined and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

10.' The combination with the rotatin g cam 19,,the lever 20, arranged adjacent to said cam and having a hook 20, atits free end,

and means for holding said lever up to the cam, of thelever 14, fulcrumed on the loom frame, the electromagnet. mounted thereon, the armature of said magnet, the armaturelever 17 fulcrumed on the lever 14, and having a hook on its free end, said hook being so situated that it is put in the path of thehook on ley'er 20 when the magnet attracts its armature, the shuttle-box and shuttle-placer," and intermediate mechanism connecting the lever 14 with said box and placer, substantially as set forth.

11. The combination with the vibrating picker-stick, and the npwardly-displaceable shuttle-box, of the vibrating placer having a slot in its bottom to provide a way for the picker-stick, the side of said bottom being cut away at 8 to permit the placer to return to its receiving position before the picker-stick is fully retracted, substantially as set forth.

12. In a loom, the combination with a stationary shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable shnttle-bo.\', a shiftable shuttle-placer which is movable from the delivery-outlet of the magazine to the picking-point and adapted to receive'and carry a shuttle from the maga-- zine to said picking-point, a rotating cam in the loom, mechanism between said cam and the placer and shuttle-box, and actuated by said cam, for displacing the shuttle-box and shiftingthe placer to the position at the'picking-point vacated. by the former, means for returning the placer and shuttle-box to their normal positions when the operating cam shall have passed, an electromagnet, and its armature and lever, controlling the connection between said cam and the mechanism which shifts the shuttle box and placer, an electric circuit including the electromagnet, and having terminals at the shnttle-box, the shuttle-box, having terminal plates to contact with the terminals on the shuttle-box, a weftcarrier in the shuttle, and a circuit in said carrier having its terminals at the plates on the shuttle and a breal; held open by the weft, substantially as setforth.

13. In a weft supplying mechanism for looms, the combination with a shuttle-magazine having the delivery-outlet at its lower part, of a shifting placer, fully open at its top to receive the shuttle sidewise from the magazine, means for expanding, and holding said placer expanded while in its'normal p0- sition at the magazine, and means for contracting, and holdingsaidplacer contracted while in its position on the lay, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

14. A weft-su pplying mechanism for looms, having a shifting or= reciprocating, opentopped placer, for conveying a full shuttle to the picking-point, and means for automatically expanding and contracting the shuttlespace in said placer, substantially as setforth,

15. In a loom, the combination with a stationary shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable shuttle-box, a shiftable shuttle-placer whichis movable from the delivery-outlet of. the magazine to the picking-point and adapted to receive and carry a shuttle from the magazine to said picking-point, mechanismfor displacing the shuttle-box and replacing it with the said placer containing a full shuttle and an open electric circuit including an electromagnet, said circuit controlling the time of operation of said mechanism and having in it a break, the closure of which is controlled by the weft in the shuttle.

16. A weft-supplying mechanism for looms having the following instrumentalities,namely, a camlever, a rotating cam which operates said lever, an electromagnet, the armatore-lever of which isnormally adjacent to said cam-lever and adapted to be put in the path of th latter by the excitation of the magnet to thereby operate means for supplying a full shuttle to the raceway of a loom, the said supplying mechanism and an open electric circuit including a generator and said electromagnet, said circuitthus controlling the times of operation of said armature-lever, and having in ita break the closure of which is controlled by the weft of the shuttle in play.

17. In a loom, means for supplying a full shuttle to the raceway of the loom, an operating-lever which actnates said supplying means at proper times, a n rmally-rotating cam in the loom, a cam-lever normally actuated by the cam, a magnet which, when excited, connects said operatingdever and camlever, whereby the latter actuates the former,

erator and said electromagnet, said circuit having in it a break the closure of which is controlled by the weft of the shuttle in play."

18. In a loom, the combination with aweftsupplying mechanism including a shiftable shuttle-box and means for furnishing a new supply of weft in place of that exhausted, of a cam-lever, a rotatingcam which operates said lever, an electromagnet, the. armaturelever of which is normally adjacent to said cam-lever and adapted to be put in the path of the latter by the excitation of the magnet,

' to thereby operate mechanism for shifting the shuttle-box and supplying weft, the said mechanism, and an open electric circuit 1ncluding a generator and said electromagnet,

said circuit thus controlling the times of operation of the weft-supplying mechanism, and having in it a break the closure of which-is controlled by the weft in the shuttlein play.

1.9. In a loom, the combination with a weftsupplying mechanism, including a'shiftable shuttle-box and means for furnishing a new supply of weft in place of that exhausted, a cam-lever, a rotating cam which operates said lever, an electromagnet the armature-lever of which has two moving-pants one of which is normally adjacent to said cam-lever and adapted to beput in the path of the latter by the excitation of the magnet, to thereby voperate mechanism for shifting the shuttlebox and supplying weft, the said mechanism, and an open electric circuitincluding a genorator and said electromagnet, said circuit thus controlling the times of operation of the weft-supplying mechanism and having in it abreak the closure of which is controlled b the weft in the shuttle in-play.

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20; Ina loom," thecombination with a shuttle-magazine, of -a displaceabl'e shuttle-box, a

shiftable shuttle: placer which is movable fromthe .deli'very-ontl'e't-of the magazine to the lo'oms shuttle picking-point and adaptedto'receiveand carrya shuttle or weft-carrier -means for, retnrningsaid shuttle box and from the magazine -to,said.picking point,

mechanism for moving said shnttle-box and puttingsaid shnttle-placer in position to have .a fullshu'ttle picked "through the warp-shed;

"placer to their; normal positions, and meansfor controlling thetime ,of the operation thereofsaid means consisting of an electric circnit including an 'electromagnet, the 610- .snre of which is controlled by the weft or fillving in the shuttle in play.

21. Ina-loom, the combination with a shuttle-magazine, of a displaceable shuttle-box; a

lshiftable;jshnttle-- placer which is movable.

from the delivery ontlet of the magazine to the loo 1ns1-1l u1ttle picking-point,- and adapted "to receive and carry a shuttle or weft-carrier.

- from-the. magazine to said picking-point, and

means for moving said shuttle-box and put-- ting said-'shuttle-placer in position to'have a full shuttle picked through the warp-shed, said means consisting of an electric circuit 'extendingfrom an-electromagnet into the. 3

shnttl e, said circuit being held open by the presenceand adapted to close by the substantial absence of weft or filling in 'the shuttle in play A loom hair-ing the following instrumentalities, namely; a di splaceable shuttle-box, a shiftable shuttle-placer, which is ada ted toreceivea" shuttle or weft-carrier and p ace same in position to befpiclied through the warpshed, means for returning said shuttle boxand placer to their-normal positions, and means for controllingthe time of the operation thereof, said means consisting of an elecitric circuit including an electromagnet, the closure of which 'is controlled by, the 'weft'or filling in the shuttle-in play. p 23. A loom h .ving'the following instrumentalities, namely: a displaceabl'e shuttle-box, a shiftable shuttle-placer, which is adapted to receive a shuttle or weft-carrierand place same in position to be. picked through thewarp-shed,1and means for controlling the time of the operation thereof, said means consisting of an electriccircuit extending from an electromagnet into the shuttle, 'the same being held open by the presence and adapted to close by the substantial absence of weft or filling-in the shuttle "in play.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names; this 18th day of April, 1899, in

the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BAKER; FREDER IG E-. KIP,

. Witnesses: i

iHmmY .Commrrr,

Pn'rmn A. Ross. 

